"Published in collaboration with Dia Center for the Arts."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 272-278)

Introduction : all this useless beauty / Greil Marcus -- Lost in the supermarket : myth and commerce in the music business / Anthony DeCurtis -- Thinking with music / Angela McRobbie -- Concealing the hunger / Jon Langford -- Art versus commerce : deconstructing a (useful) romantic illusion / Deena Weinstein -- Re : creation / Evelyn McDonnell -- Bela Lugosi's dead and I don't feel so good either : goth and the glorification of suffering in rock music / James Hannaham -- MTV killed the music video star / Katherine Dieckmann -- Same as it ever was? rock culture. Same as it ever was! rock theory. / Lawrence Grossberg -- On not playing dead / Kathleen Hanna -- Cinderella at the headbanger's ball / Chuck Eddy -- The sound of the crowd / Jon Savage -- Crowds and freedom / Ellen Willis -- Dark carnival / Paul D. Miller (DJ Spooky that subliminal kid) -- Love only knows / Dave Hickey -- I'll have to say I love you in a song / Ann Powers -- Freedom songs, love songs / Toshi Reagon -- Ecstasy is a science : techno-romanticism / Simon Reynolds -- Between a hard rock and a velvet Elvis : fatal attractions in rock iconography / Ralph Rugoff -- Rock against romance : gender, rock 'n' roll, and resistance / Arlene Stein -- Keeping time / Karen Kelly -- The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum : myth, memory, and history / Robert Santelli -- Across the great divide : rock critics, rock women / Barbara O'Dair -- Music for gangsters and (other) chameleons / Jessica Hagedorn -- Analogues of mourning, mourning the analog / Paul Gilroy

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